Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
DAKoTA's CLIMATE
a Territory Of uneaualea No..
Resources and Healthfn, ''0'
Climate.
Hundreds Of Anxious Sett,o,, ~.
On the Northern pacia. I'll
Indemnity Lands.

sent out advance sheets of the "p 0n
of Dakota," 500 page pampble. 'esou'
the hands of the printer. The wo LOW
contain IN extensive chapter on tha
cultural development of Dakot.
the most careful inquiry the comm,.. AT
comes to the following conclusion
the crops this year, the results pive.
being in round numbers: Wheat 90 ~
900. corn $4,000, 900, oats a, con, NM oo'0'
100000. Comparisons with the wiz,
1856 are given and the percentage ~
and albuminoids in American wbeat ' y
giving table which shows Dakot. =; u
lead the report says: "The ovoro.
cen.age OF al6uminoids in the wb ss y
all the United States and British l'a as
lea is 1915. In Dakota the aysra AM
l4.95-leading every state and ta ,ass
The average percentage of the d.N
OF the wheats of the United Stota tsas
British America is 1O.16. In this '' ss.I
Dakota leads every compel tor WIZ r,I
average percentage OF only Ssa
water in the composition Of her VI.
Commenting on the result Of this ;n Nus
cation the chemist says: 'As will h. =
the Dakota specimens are nil er, I'M
rich in abuminoids-one conta;nina
high as 1903 per cent, which is ,ha :;
est specimen ever analysed in the In;
State. And, he adds, the eastern Non,
poorer in nitrogen and gluten than m,
the others. In fact the -four follows cls
ly the composition of the wheat which
been exam ued from the same parts n
country. Dakota makes a fonr Gs
than any other i'll gluten in the SAM
that it produces wheat Of that desc,
ton"
1t would be impossible in newso,
article to give thorough review q
forthcoming work. AS Dako.a has
greatly misrerresented as to climate,
people of the east believing that DasI
freezes up in November and never I'll !
out till spring, that it is o long siege
bowling billiards. and cold unenlulad
we give space to this question, wi
Commissioner McClur, covers 70 M
oughly: "The winters are cold, it is N
but the air is dry, pure and full of inv
atom, and with every respiration one d
that he is drinking from the myth]
spring of perpetual youth. Less Sd
falls in Dakota during the winters thad|
the states east and south of us. Asas|
eral rule there is scarcely enough snoI
make good sleiehing; i
The most disagreeable and unconid
able days of the winter are not those
dictated by the lowest temperature, as
eastern friends would imagine. It'll d
when the wind blows strong from
northwest, full of fine particles of snl
that the Dakotaian thinks of housing hi
self because of the inclemency Of
weather. These storms, popularly kpo
as billiards., are quite severe, but fort
ately are rare and are always followed
days brighter and more sunshiny, if DO
BILE, than those of the standard for
season of the year. The records Of
National Weather bureau prove the asa
ton that in tho winter months Dakota
joys more sunny days-days when pe's
than any of the states of the east.
OF cyclones and like disastrous stoi
the people of Dakota have no fear.
investigations of the United States sig
service declares US to be without the
clone teit. Each years record tells
death dealing cyclones, of terrible foo
of forest fires, of drought and Of ear
quakes in neighboring states, and yet |
one thinks of maligning those sections
the union by oft repeated exaggerationsI
their misfortunes. But let Dakota be
tied by the least of these disasters
there would follow such an outpourins
misrepresentation, topped with glarl
head lines, as would move the very vo|
for sympathy. When the truth in regd
to Dakota's climate shall become wld4
known, she will need no louder songs 50
in her praise than will then be uttered |
her present ignorant detractors. Int
gently investigated and understood,
healthfulness of the climate offers
strongest and weightiest of oil indul
ments for settlement in our midst"